MacOS 8.1 on an '030 (somewhat OT)

From: THETechnoid_at_home.com <(THETechnoid_at_home.com)>
Date: Wed Nov 22 17:44:15 2000

Umm, yea... That is odd.

Maybe the machine has an 040 accellerator cpu installed. I don't even
know if there IS an 040 upgrade for the IIci but that is the only thing I
can think it might be except that maybe this software product provides a
layer to fool macos into thinking it HAS got an 040?

Kinda like those software 'math coprocessors' that used to allow you to
run autocad on a machine without a 287/387 by providing the function in
software. It actually did speed floating point up quite a bit, but not
nearly what the hardware FPU would have.

I hate it when manufacturers abandon legacy hardware. My Sunbox can't run
any Solaris above 2.4(sunos5.4) cause Sun doesn't love me anymore
(screwing up eyes to fight tears).

Regards,

Jeff

In <200011221524.HAA10674_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>, on 11/22/00
   at 06:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu> said:

>> >This is absolutely *disturbing*.
>> >http://people.ne.mediaone.net/brochner/bornagain/showme.htm

>> It`s running on a 040 there

>The IIci is not an '040.



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